2015 Global Climate Legislation Study - summary for policymakers (English) (opens in new window)
... At the IPU, we firmly believe that legislators are a central element of any successful strategy for tackling climate change and that they bear their own share of responsibility for its effective implementation. As mandated representatives of the people, parliamentarians are duty-bound to enact and a ...
... At the IPU, we firmly believe that legislators are a central element of any successful strategy for tackling climate change and that they bear their own share of responsibility for its effective implementation. As mandated representatives of the people, parliamentarians are duty-bound to enact and a ...
Climate change and forced migration
... widely repeated prediction being 200 million forced climate migrants by 2050. But repetition does not make the figure any more accurate. While the scientific argument for climate change is increasingly confident, the consequences of climate change for human population distribution are unclear and un ...
... widely repeated prediction being 200 million forced climate migrants by 2050. But repetition does not make the figure any more accurate. While the scientific argument for climate change is increasingly confident, the consequences of climate change for human population distribution are unclear and un ...
Winter 2017. - Squarespace
... Demuth received significant funding from the Georgetown Environment Initiative. The workshops will connect the most innovative climate change and climate history scholars with leading activists and journalists. The big question the workshops will seek to answer: how can scholars more effectively com ...
... Demuth received significant funding from the Georgetown Environment Initiative. The workshops will connect the most innovative climate change and climate history scholars with leading activists and journalists. The big question the workshops will seek to answer: how can scholars more effectively com ...
Interpreting bargaining strategies of developing countries in climate
... Ngwadla, 2014). In particular, great emphasis has been given to the different interpretation of the CBDR principle and its consequences, both in terms of deadlock in negotiations and burden sharing implications (Winkler and Rajamani, 2014; Zhang and Shi, 2014). According to Article 3.1 of the Conven ...
... Ngwadla, 2014). In particular, great emphasis has been given to the different interpretation of the CBDR principle and its consequences, both in terms of deadlock in negotiations and burden sharing implications (Winkler and Rajamani, 2014; Zhang and Shi, 2014). According to Article 3.1 of the Conven ...
carbon plantations kit - Private Forests Tasmania
... Nationally, agriculture is the dominant source of both methane (59%) and nitrous oxide (84%) emissions into the atmosphere. The increase in amounts and ratios of certain atmospheric gases, especially carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, over the last two hundred years, has caused a gradual glo ...
... Nationally, agriculture is the dominant source of both methane (59%) and nitrous oxide (84%) emissions into the atmosphere. The increase in amounts and ratios of certain atmospheric gases, especially carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, over the last two hundred years, has caused a gradual glo ...
Climate Change and the Law
... only one inter-related problem that has not yet spawned its own field of law) and too broad (involving, for example, international, national, and subnational law), but we think that addressing such a complex problem from many different sides allows for pedagogical innovation and exploration. Student ...
... only one inter-related problem that has not yet spawned its own field of law) and too broad (involving, for example, international, national, and subnational law), but we think that addressing such a complex problem from many different sides allows for pedagogical innovation and exploration. Student ...
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... impact of the starting year on historical responsibility. Fig.4 shows the Lorenz curves of different starting years. Table 2 shows Gini index results of different starting years in various calculation methods. We can learn that different calculation methods do not affect the Gini index value much, b ...
... impact of the starting year on historical responsibility. Fig.4 shows the Lorenz curves of different starting years. Table 2 shows Gini index results of different starting years in various calculation methods. We can learn that different calculation methods do not affect the Gini index value much, b ...
Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture September 30, 2013
... then compare these long differences estimates to panel estimates of short-run responses to weather. Long run adaptations appear to have mitigated less than about half of the shortrun effects of extreme heat exposure on corn yields, and point estimates across a range of specifications suggest that l ...
... then compare these long differences estimates to panel estimates of short-run responses to weather. Long run adaptations appear to have mitigated less than about half of the shortrun effects of extreme heat exposure on corn yields, and point estimates across a range of specifications suggest that l ...
Chapter 4 Global action and Australia`s role
... More needs to be done to keep warming below 2 degrees and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, but there are promising signs. The level of action has steadily increased over the last 20 years and accelerated recently. The two largest emitters of greenhouse gases—China and the United States—are ...
... More needs to be done to keep warming below 2 degrees and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, but there are promising signs. The level of action has steadily increased over the last 20 years and accelerated recently. The two largest emitters of greenhouse gases—China and the United States—are ...
Submission from the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
... ensure that the observation and information needed to address climate‐related issues are obtained and made available to all potential users. The goal of GCOS is that contributing observing systems together provide comprehensive information on the total climate sy ...
... ensure that the observation and information needed to address climate‐related issues are obtained and made available to all potential users. The goal of GCOS is that contributing observing systems together provide comprehensive information on the total climate sy ...
Economic Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Ground
... where climate change problem is the most severe. On the one hand, with passage of time vehicle usage will result in more greenhouse gases, which would contribute to further climate change; on the other hand, climate change itself makes transportation infrastructure, vehicles and operations vulnerabl ...
... where climate change problem is the most severe. On the one hand, with passage of time vehicle usage will result in more greenhouse gases, which would contribute to further climate change; on the other hand, climate change itself makes transportation infrastructure, vehicles and operations vulnerabl ...
Climate change, species distribution models, and physiological performance metrics: predicting when
... environmental fluctuations and we expect the decay slope, or right side of the curve, to be relatively shallow, reflecting the ability of the organism to survive the rate of energy consumption during the transient period of negative energy (Table 1). Environments of this type include those that are ...
... environmental fluctuations and we expect the decay slope, or right side of the curve, to be relatively shallow, reflecting the ability of the organism to survive the rate of energy consumption during the transient period of negative energy (Table 1). Environments of this type include those that are ...
a prediction market for climate outcomes
... interest groups that have helped produce a public discourse that has been at times emotional and vitriolic, and at other times puzzlingly apathetic, but rarely constructive and rarely leading to rational policy discussion. Climate scientists, not generally accustomed to the glare of public policy de ...
... interest groups that have helped produce a public discourse that has been at times emotional and vitriolic, and at other times puzzlingly apathetic, but rarely constructive and rarely leading to rational policy discussion. Climate scientists, not generally accustomed to the glare of public policy de ...
Coalition formation in Integrated Assessment Models
... of cooperative game theory. Cooperative game theory assumes that players can make binding agreements. Full compliance with an agreement is always assumed, hence monitoring and enforcement are not considered. The focus of cooperative game theory is the stability of the grand coalition, the coalition ...
... of cooperative game theory. Cooperative game theory assumes that players can make binding agreements. Full compliance with an agreement is always assumed, hence monitoring and enforcement are not considered. The focus of cooperative game theory is the stability of the grand coalition, the coalition ...
Yukon Climate Change Indicators and Key
... In its most recent global assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of ...
... In its most recent global assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of ...
Bronze Age Review - ePrints Soton
... (Barber, 2007). Even for the site studied by Charman (2007) the driest years on record such as 1975 and 1976 were also two of the hottest. The reason is that anticyclonic conditions and high pressure cells draw in relatively dry air for Europe and Siberia, although augmented by convectional precipit ...
... (Barber, 2007). Even for the site studied by Charman (2007) the driest years on record such as 1975 and 1976 were also two of the hottest. The reason is that anticyclonic conditions and high pressure cells draw in relatively dry air for Europe and Siberia, although augmented by convectional precipit ...
African Americans and Climate Change: An
... American community. The synthesis indicates that there is a substantial equity issue in the unequal distribution of the impacts of climate change. 2) African Americans Are Less Responsible for Climate Change In contrast to the burden of climate change, responsibility for the problem does not lie pri ...
... American community. The synthesis indicates that there is a substantial equity issue in the unequal distribution of the impacts of climate change. 2) African Americans Are Less Responsible for Climate Change In contrast to the burden of climate change, responsibility for the problem does not lie pri ...
Climate change and food safety: A review
... A climate change scenario study which predicted outcomes until 2100 in Australia estimated that the number of cases of gastroenteritis will rise over the coming century, due to increases in cases caused by Salmonella and other bacteria (Bambrick et al., 2008). Zhang, Bi, and Hiller (2009) predicted ...
... A climate change scenario study which predicted outcomes until 2100 in Australia estimated that the number of cases of gastroenteritis will rise over the coming century, due to increases in cases caused by Salmonella and other bacteria (Bambrick et al., 2008). Zhang, Bi, and Hiller (2009) predicted ...
anthropology and climate change - North Atlantic Biocultural
... camels.’” Although it seems completely plausible that such highly adaptive cultures as the reindeer-herding Eveny of northeastern Siberia will find ways to feed themselves even if their reindeer cannot survive the projected climactic shifts, as anthropologists we need to grapple with the implication ...
... camels.’” Although it seems completely plausible that such highly adaptive cultures as the reindeer-herding Eveny of northeastern Siberia will find ways to feed themselves even if their reindeer cannot survive the projected climactic shifts, as anthropologists we need to grapple with the implication ...
Fiji - unfccc
... Many educational resources available on climate change focus on its causes and its mitigation by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. There are very few educational resources that address adaptation measures that are specific to Pacific islands. The focus of this resource is on the effects of ...
... Many educational resources available on climate change focus on its causes and its mitigation by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. There are very few educational resources that address adaptation measures that are specific to Pacific islands. The focus of this resource is on the effects of ...
Local Climate Change Governance
... discussions are more concerned with the amount of future temperature rise, the impacts of this rise, and the ways human societies will need to react to climate change in order to prosper. A consequence of transforming attitudes to anthropogenic climate change is a global movement in the direction of ...
... discussions are more concerned with the amount of future temperature rise, the impacts of this rise, and the ways human societies will need to react to climate change in order to prosper. A consequence of transforming attitudes to anthropogenic climate change is a global movement in the direction of ...
CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE SOUTHWEST
... discussion--prior to the September symposium and workshop--on the effects of climate variability, possible natural and human-related long-term climate change, and land-use change in the rapidly growing southwestern United ...
... discussion--prior to the September symposium and workshop--on the effects of climate variability, possible natural and human-related long-term climate change, and land-use change in the rapidly growing southwestern United ...
... are difficult to predict (Goodess 2000). In particular, the future radiative forcing from greenhouse gases is difficult to quantify because the emissions of these gases depend on many assumptions and uncertain factors such as population growth, the use of carbon fuel as an energy source, technologic ...
Application of Self-Organizing-Maps Technique in Downscaling
... assessments are needed to complement the broad impact assessments such as those provided by Global Climate Models (GCMs) (Feenstra et al., 1997). GCMs represent physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and land surface. They are widely known to be the most advanced tools currently av ...
... assessments are needed to complement the broad impact assessments such as those provided by Global Climate Models (GCMs) (Feenstra et al., 1997). GCMs represent physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and land surface. They are widely known to be the most advanced tools currently av ...
Climate change feedback
Climate change feedback is important in the understanding of global warming because feedback processes may amplify or diminish the effect of each climate forcing, and so play an important part in determining the climate sensitivity and future climate state. Feedback in general is the process in which changing one quantity changes a second quantity, and the change in the second quantity in turn changes the first. Positive feedback amplifies the change in the first quantity while negative feedback reduces it.The term ""forcing"" means a change which may ""push"" the climate system in the direction of warming or cooling. An example of a climate forcing is increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. By definition, forcings are external to the climate system while feedbacks are internal; in essence, feedbacks represent the internal processes of the system. Some feedbacks may act in relative isolation to the rest of the climate system; others may be tightly coupled; hence it may be difficult to tell just how much a particular process contributes. Forcings, feedbacks and the dynamics of the climate system determine how much and how fast the climate changes. The main positive feedback in global warming is the tendency of warming to increase the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, which in turn leads to further warming. The main negative feedback comes from the Stefan–Boltzmann law, the amount of heat radiated from the Earth into space changes with the fourth power of the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere.Some observed and potential effects of global warming are positive feedbacks, which contribute directly to further global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report states that ""Anthropogenic warming could lead to some effects that are abrupt or irreversible, depending upon the rate and magnitude of the climate change.""